Join us on Thursday 3 October at 4pm for a public talk by Professor Gary Younge (Manchester) followed by a response delivered by Professor Akwugo Emejulu (Sheffield).
This event will take place in the Samuel Alexander Building, A113 and forms part of CIDRAL's Im/mobilities series of events for 2024-2025 and is co-organised with the Race, Roots & Resistance Collective.
Description from the speaker:
"The 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris offers an opportunity to explore the discrepancy between race-based mythologies around the Second World War and Black involvement in the war and what that tells us about Europe as a whole and how Black people's presence here is misunderstood. How would conversations about responsibility, obligation, entitlement, sacrifice, patriotism, immigration, integration, welfare, equality and justice be understood when applied to Black people if their contributions to the war were fully acknowledged?
I intend to highlight these issues with specific reference to the decision to ensure only white French troops could be seen to liberate Paris and the scene, the day after the Liberation, in which a Gabonese soldier, Georges Dukson, effectively photobombs General De Gaulle as he parades along the Champs-Élysées."
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